Former Inter boss Leonardo spoke on the current situation of the club with Sky:
“The situation is not simple. The season started in a bad way because of the summer, but we must not forget the two ownership changes over the last three years. Inter miss someone like Massimo Moratti. In favour of people who do not know Italian football. Even the Italians are not ready for foreign investors, given the history and tradition of the club. Now Inter need a lot of calm, before choosing a new coach, given the situation, you have to review everything what’s going on and how to get organised. who should make decisions, as you must do: this is what needs to be reviewed before calling the new coach. There’s a number of situations to be reviewed and then make the choice.”
He then addressed rumours that he could return: “I’m pleased to be considered as new head coach, but it’s because of my past at Inter. But I’m not the right profile, I’m a coach-manager. The management must be absolutely sure on the new coach, or they’re going to go wrong again.”
Carrying on, Leonardo spoke on having the best average points per game post-Mourinho: “That was a team made, the merit of the media outlets must be divided amongst a solid group of very strong players. This I was able to do thanks to the relationship with Massimo Moratti, who was one of the strengths. Then I quickly recovered the self-esteem of the team. I say that because a choice should be shared because it has good results, today is not so.”
Leonardo concluded: “Inter need to look at the English model, where the owner makes decisions but you never see them. In Italy, Inter need someone representing them. The Nerazzurri must find someone who has a 360° of the club. The owner must know you and you must know the owner. I’m not the right profile, I don’t know the ownership. Now, keeping calm, Inter need to organise a 10 year project, choosing the right people to take it forward. Taking a coach and just seeing what happens is useless. There are many holes in the management and some may have their say.”
Source: FCInterNews.it
all I read was, Leo keep flirting with moratti.
Good points, but I lost my respect to this guy when he abandoned us and went after big money PSG. I remember how that wrecked our season since he left mid-summer (June I think.) To say such things about foreign investors when you yourself opened your legs make you hypocritical.
Nonetheless, good points by Leonardo, I think our owners need to understand that you can’t be entertaining and successful in Serie A, that’s the bottom line.
Simply said ´I don´t want to go to Inter cose everything stinks there´.
Well said Leo, but some ignorant said sacking the coach before season starts and replacing him with incompetent one was the best decision ever
you know what can we bring leonardo as a director or any role in the management, i think he can help fix management issues
Maybe the problem is Italy, clubs and ppl think it’s the holy grail and everything should be kept intact as it once was and that outsiders are bad…No wonder the league and the NT suck.
That’s why you see clubs recycling the same coaches.
so leonardo, … they OD NOT WANT YOU IN MILAN.
I can understand your pain… yes, it hurts.
There is a lot of commonsense in what Leonardo says. He is right to say that Italian Football may not be ready for foreign ownership. Inter along with AC, Juve, Roma and some others are icons of Italian Football and I am not sure if foreign investors see beyond the financial aspect of owning the club, these are not rich mans playthings, the fans make these clubs living, breathing entities and not a set of bank balances. I also think this suck it and see approach to managers is just plain stupid, yes everyone wants results but unless a manager is given time to shape a team and get a system going before the next manager comes in to change it again how do they expect the team to perform? Inter is set to become another Palermo with a new manager after every 3 losses and look where they are? I am not Interista so I have no axe to grind with anyone but Internazionale is important to Calcio as a whole.
You have it backwards, for decades many of the owners of Italian clubs ran these clubs and the league as “playthings”. And this is why majority of the teams are/were running in the red.
Roma is owned by foreign investors. They are doing quite well in recent times since they took over. They are even going to build a new stadium. And Juventus is properly run like a business and a club, not just a club and from the heart, and that’s why they’re doing so well… Meanwhile Inter and AC Milan were playthings for Moratti and Berlusconi. And they just let them rot and goto shit.
I take your point entirely and would only add that these were Italian owners that understood what the clubs represented. Milan and Inter are huge parts of the history of Calcio. Foreign owners may not understand their importance to Italian football., these are not minnions of the Italian game. I know that the business side goes hand in hand with the football side, you can’t have one without the other, Udinese is a well run club financially but they are just competing to keep themselves in Serie A. Milan and Inter are not used to zero silverware year after year or crap team performances. The boycott if that is what it was of buying season tickets at Milan was a point being made by the fans, give us something worth watching and we will pay to see it. I know it’s all emotive and arguments can be made in all sorts of ways but at the end of the day a football club is more than just a business, to a die hard fan it means a lot more than its bank balance. Juve struck gold when they appointed Conte, they had a long term plan and Conte was like a catalyst bringing them success earlier than anyone thought. Is there a plan at Inter or Milan or just a “lets give this idea a go now” approach.
Foreign investors know the importance and history of Inter and Milan, that’s why they chose clubs like this to invest in and not some small no name club. Fans should understand that a financially stable club goes hand in hand with being a great club. That holds true for the large clubs around Europe.
There is a plan at Inter but fans think this is 2010-11 and that we DESERVE and are given birth right to be top 3 every yr. Fans lose their shit when that’s not the result and create a toxic environment.The reality is we are not a top 3 team yet. I feel like being 1st for a long stretch last yr created unrealistic expectations.
And yes I called for Mancini to be fired last yr because if you look at what he was building it was not good and would set us back a while when next coach came in. Our goal diff was around +10 the past 2yrs, while the top 3 teams were like +30 to +60. Thats crazy. He was never finishing top 3 with that style of play.
I admire your patience with your club and your faith in its foreign owners which is probably not something shared by all Inter fans and your reasoning is considered and logical. I just have a nagging feeling that foreign investors just look at how much money can be made from a brand first and foremost, but I am a cynic in these matters, Football stopped coming first in England once the likes of Abramovich thought owning a football team would be fun, I think he even admitted at knowing nothing about football. He did get into football the more he watched but was interested in buying his way to the Premiership title if he couldn’t just win it. Others have been the same, do you remember Man City with the obscene bid for Kaka some years ago and the 250K per week salary on offer. The Prem turned into a pissing contest between rich knob owners who thought buying big names automatically got the title. Managers on the other hand are supposed to be the glue as well as the lubricant of football teams, they keep the players together and running smoothly but that can only be achieved with time. I don’t see how chopping and changing managers frequently can be good for a team trying to establish either its style of play or string together a worthy run of results.
Yes, there is a fine line between investing in a team to improve it and trying to buy a championship… And I’ve been crying about consistency at Inter for the past 6yrs. Whether that means with a coach or players (not changing majority of the starting lineup every week or yr). I don’t know any good/great team that does that.
To those who said Leo is crap and knows nothing about fixing the current situation that Inter are in…Leo was pretty spot on with problems that are currently bringing Inter down.
so what, we all know whats wrong, leo even said himself he is not coach and you wanto just make him one
I’m sorry that you are illiterate and don’t know how to read or comprehend sentences very well. He clearly says “I’m a coach-manager”
Clearly stating what kind coaching approach he likes. He likes to be involved in all aspects. Such as having a say in who gets sold and bought and coaching the team. You clearly know little about futbol.
we need a straight coach that can only focus on the team and fix the bs, you consider Leonardo a good coach and telling me I don’t know about football, pull out that nail from your eyes before saying I have a needle in my eyes
I never said he was the greatest coach or the perfect coach to fix Inter. I only said that now since FDB I would possibly like for him be the caretaker. Since he has done it before.
Since the stupid Inter Management wants a caretaker and not hire someone for long term basis
the only thing he can fix is our motive, as he is one of the best motivators around, but what about the rest? most importantly tactic ? this is serie a bro, it doesn’t work like that in here, and we are inter, Leonardo know nothing about coaching I remember his inter the team did have motive and hunger but no discipline and defense ? what defense , it was like the legs of the hoes in Tijuana
Thats proof that were clueless, we have no project.
I believe that mazzari is a coach with the most italian taste with his 3-5-2 system than any italian coach since mou era. But we ask him to play more attractive.than we bring mancini, the modern italia manager. He build solid defens for half season but we call him boring n ask him to be more attractive. So we hire de boer, but when he try to set his style,then we realise that we need solid defens to compete in serie a. What next?back to attractive football?
Excellent point, but who’s listening…